Also 8 emancipater. [a. L. ēmancipātor, f. ēmancipā-re to EMANCIPATE.] One who emancipates. lit. and fig.
1782. Sir W. Jones, trans. Mahomedan Law Success., Wks. 1799, III. 492. And those, who inherit among males, are … The son, and the son’s son … And the husband, and the emancipator nearly connected.
1828. Blackw. Mag., XXIV. 5/1. Such is our classification … of the heads of Catholic Emancipators.
1830. Mackintosh, Eth. Philos., Wks. 1846, I. 38. It was lawful for the emancipators of Reason in their first struggles to carry on mortal war against the Schoolmen.
1878. C. Stanford, Symb. Christ, ii. 45. They waited for Him as their Emancipator from the Roman yoke.
